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R. R. HAZARD. TRANSFER RAILWAY STATION OR TERMINU-S. No. 329,164.Patented Oct. 2'7. 1885.

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PATENT ROWLAND B. HAZARD, OF NE\V YORK, N. Y.

SAPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No, 329,164, dated October27, 1885.

Application filed February 27, 1885. Serial No. 157,166.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ROWLAND R. HAZARD, a citizen of the United States,residing in the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a newand useful Structure Adapted for Exchange or Transfer Railway Stationsand Termini, of which the following is a specific-a tion.

Myinvention relates to a transfer railway station or terminus; and itconsists of a structure or building in which the basement, ground floor,and second floor are connected by elevators, stairs, and inclinedplanes, or either one or two of them are each furnished withalighting-floors or platforms, and are arranged for and support orinclose tracks or ways for underground, surface, and elevated railways,respectively.

It further consists of details of construction hereinafter described andclaimed.

In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification,Figure 1 represents the basement or underground part of a structureembodying my invention, and is a crosssection on line or w of Fig. 4.Fig. 2 repre sents the ground or first floor, and is a cross section online y of Fig. 4. Fig. 3 represents the second floor, and is across-section on line 2 z of the same figure. Fig. 4 is a verticalcross-section on lines w w of Figs. 1, 2, and 3, showing also the caroutside of the building in Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a vertical cross-sectiontaken on line o 'v of Fig. 4.

In the drawings only so much of the structure is shown as is essentialto a full disclosure of the invention, it being understood that saidstructure extends to the right of Figs. at and 5 a greater or lessdistance, as may be required to facilitate the transfer of passengers orgoods. The said structure may be erected at any point or place whereunderground, surface, and elevated tracks terminate, or where they crossor pass near or over each other.

Referring to the drawings, A and B designate two of the walls of thestructure, the remaining walls not being shown, as before explained. Thebasement or underground part of the structure is provided with four ormore tracks, 0, for the way and express trains of an undergroundrailway, which may either terminate in the building or pass in and outof (No model.)

the same. Platforms or alighting-floors D are placed in proximity tosaid tracks to give access to the cars. An inclined plane or roadway, F,solid or supported on a series of walls, piers, orcolumns, E, connectsthe basementG with the ground floor H. This roadway may be soconstructed as to permit its use by pedestrians as well as by vehiclesor cars. Opposite the inclined plane, on the ground floor, is a doorway,by which said plane communicates with the platforms of the first floor,and thence with the street. Flights of stairs K, K, and K and elevatorsL connect the several floors with each other and facilitate the transferof passengers. The structure will of course be provided with as manyflights of stairs and elevators as may be required to effect thetransfer of passengers with dispatch. On the ground floor a series ofrooms or covered passages, M, are provided, (two of which only areillustrated in the drawings,) designed for the use of surface railways,especially street-cars. These rooms or covered passages are providedwith tracks N, communicating with those outside of the building, andcan, if desired, be fitted up as Waiting-rooms forpassengers. Tindicates the platforms of the first floor. Each of the rooms M may beassigned for use to a different company or line of cars, and allcommunicate with the platform by doorways, preferably furnished withdoors. (Not shown.) Over each entrance or door of the rooms M maybeinscribed the name or route of the line of cars within. The outeropenings or doorways of the rooms M will also be provided with doors,preferably of the kind which open and close automatically. Each room Mis provided with a platform oralighting-floor adjacent to the track.

The second floor, I, of the building is located substantially on a levelwith the tracks P of the elevated railway, so that the cars thereof arereadily accessible either from said floor or from a platform erectedadjacent to said tracks.

To prevent anyinconveuience or injury to the building from thevibrations of the elevated structure caused by the running of trainsthereon, I support its tracks within the building on a series ofcolumns, 0, entirely disconnected from the walls and floors of the same,said columns beingbuilt on foundations R, sepany other uses.

structure many railways of all kinds.

arate from those laid for the walls, and passing freely through openingsS in the floors.

I have shown in the drawings only two elevated tracks; but it is to beunderstood that any number of such, as well as of underground andsurface tracks, may be supported by or inclosed within the saidstructure; In cities like New York, for example, the structure wouldinclose and serve a large number of railwaylines.

The building may consist of a greater number of floors than shown, andthe additional floors may be subdivided into office-rooms for occupationby the several railway companies using the building, or may be convertedto It is designed to erect a structure of the kind described especiallyin places where there is or may be a large exchange or transfer ofpassengers, and to lead intoor through said The transfer of passengersin such a structure is effected entirely under cover, and consideringthe nearness of all the tracks to each other and the facilities forpassing from one floor to another, it is accomplished with the greatestcomfort, safety, economy, and dispatch possible. This combination orconcentration of a large number of railways will also be a greatconyenience and economy to the traveling public, since from such astation transfer to and from all said conveyances may be effected withthe minimum of cost, time, trouble, expense, danger, and straying, andmany, if not al the sections of a city maybe reached, the extent of thefacilities being dependent of course upon the number of lines enteringthe same.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent,

exchange or transfer railway station or terminus, in which the basement,ground or first floor, and second floor are connected by stairs,elevators, and inclined planes, or any one or two of them are arrangedfor and sustain or inclose tracks for underground, surface, and elevatedrailways, respectively, and are each furnished with alighting-floors orplatforms adjacent to said tracks, substantially as described.

2. A structure or building arranged as. a railway station or terminusand inclosing an elevated railway structure passing therethrough orterminating therein, and disconnected from the'walls andfioors thereof,whereby the vibrations of said railway structure incident to themovement of trains will not be transmitted to the said building,substantially as described.

3. Astructure or building arranged as an exchange or transfer railwaystation or terminus, in which the basement is provided with tracksconstituting part of an underground railway, the ground or first floorwith a series of rooms or covered passages, provided with tracks for anumber of surface railways, the second floor with tracks for elevatedrailways, supported on a structure disconnected from the walls andfloors of the said building, and in which the several floors areprovided with alighting-floors or platforms adjacent to said tracks, andare connected with each other by stairs, elevators, and inclined planes,or any one or two of them, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of twowitnesses.

BOVVLAND R. HAZARD.

